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Summary

Description

Built as Free Church, begun 1843, enlarged 1857. Now

(1988) Church of Scotland. Street elevation; tower and

stair to gallery added 1880, adjoining earlier hall.

Squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings.

Random whinstone rubble at sides and rear. Window bays

slightly recessed to N; corbel table to eaves and

cornice.

TOWER AND PORCH tower and gallery stair 1880. Entrance in

central, advanced, 3-stage tower. Doorway in shallow

projecting porch; engaged columns with decorative

Neo-Romanesque capitals, moulded round arch above,

6 diamond-panels to double door. String course above;

plate traceried rose window. String course above with

ornamental stepped corbel table. Louvred bipartite with

column mullion in round-headed panel with clock. Grey

slates to helm roof; finial and weather vane.

Lean-to gallery stair projection to right of tower with

2 narrow round arched windows. 3 sided stair turret

above in re-entrant angle with narrow arched windows to

each face; grey slates to polygonal roof.

2-storey gallery stair block recessed bay to right with

column-mullioned bipartite at gallery level. Bay to left

with 2 round-arched windows at ground floor; tripartite

with columned mullions above. Gable ends of N and S

returns with 3 round-headed windows stepping down to S

at ground, 3 of standard height at 1st floor.

4-pane glazing to round-headed windows.

Grey slates, straight skews.

Entrance to body of church via vestry; single storey

projection to E with crowstepped gable added 1887.

S ELEVATION: 2 tall windows at rear with brick relieving

arches.

Single storey heating chamber adjoined at rear.

Grey slates, straight skews, brick stack to vestry, die to

E end gable.

INTERIOR: very plain with panelled gallery inserted 1880

to 3 sides. Stained glass to S windows.

CHURCH HALL: adjoining church, formerly school, built

1846. Single storey, 3-bay hall, random whinstone

rubble, sandstone dressings. Entrance to E gable end

wall. Sash and case window to each bay with 12-pane

lying glazing pattern.

Red pantiles, straight skews, brick wallhead stack to

S elevation.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church built in 1843 to house breakaway Free Church of Scotland led by Rev John Thomson, formerly of Prestonkirk. Functioned as a school on weekdays.

Bell hung 1884; memorial to Mr A Scott of Beanston, who built Scotscraig (listed separately) and loaned house to church as a Manse. Clock; "Jessie" installed 1887, commemerating Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

Reunion of 2 Prestonkirk congregations in May 1959. Pulpit, choir box and pews removed in 1964; church reopened as multipurpose building.

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